Parody: Ancient, Modern and Post-modern

In this definitive work, Margaret Rose presents an analysis and history of theories of parody from ancient to contemporary times. Her earlier Parody/Meta-fiction (1979) was influential in broadening awareness of parody as a "double-coded" device that could be used for more than mere ridicule. In the present study she both expands and revises the introductory section of her 1979 text and adds substantial new sections on modern and postmodern theories and uses of parody and pastiche that analyze the work of theorists and writers including Bakhtin and Eco.

Margaret A. Rose is a noted historian of theory. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Royal Historical Society, a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and has held academic posts in literature and the history of ideas in Australia and elsewhere.